Finance Score: -4
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 8
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

CITY & HACKNEY CARERS CENTRE 

ADVICE AND WELFARE BENEFITS SUPPORT TO UNPAID CARERS, STATUTORY CARERS NEEDS ASSESSMENTS, SUPPORT GROUPS, OTHER PROJECT BASED WORK AND COUNSELLING SERVICE AVAILABLE.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
  • Income has been volatile recently
Established: 28 years

www.hackneycarers.org.uk

info@hackneycarers.org.uk

02085330951

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23*£197£204£-7n/an/an/an/an/a7
31/03/22£225£227£-1n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/21£276£219£56n/an/an/an/an/a9
31/03/20*£314£317£-3n/an/an/an/an/a11
31/03/19£435£458£-23n/an/an/an/an/a16
31/03/18*£478£507£-29£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£506£442£64£0£196£1925.2170
31/03/16£396£322£74£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£402£352£50£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£365£380£-15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13*£362£423£-60£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£517£550£-33£6£100£932110
31/03/11£520£509£11£16£133£1333.190
31/03/10£477£470£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£486£471£16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£408£403£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£380£396£-16£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06*£382£381£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£408£367£41£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£340£342£-2£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • City Of London, Hackney,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 7 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
City Bridge Trust£140,900
DCMS£79,791
Hackney Council£53,000
Mercer's Charitable Foundation£42,400
The London Community Foundation£23,354
Hackney CVS£8,665
Charles Hayward Foundation£7,000
London Catalyst£4,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
London Catalyst - City and Hackney Carers Centre - 7
£1,500 07/12/2023
Hardship Fund
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to City and Hackney Carers
£7,000 21/12/2022
Prime Time - support service for older carers
Hackney CVS - Hackney Giving and LBH Cost of Living
£5,000 08/12/2022
to provide gas and electricity vouchers to 45 carers.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to City & Hackney Carers Centre
£2,796 22/10/2022
Our goal is to empower young adult carers in the City of London and Hackney to reach their personal, educational, and vocational goals.
Hackney Council - Grant to City & Hackney Carers Centre
£23,000 13/10/2022
Providing generalist advice to carers living in, or taking care of someone living in Hackney.
Hackney Council - Grant to City & Hackney Carers Centre
£10,000 28/09/2022
Carers Relaxation and Information Days.
Hackney CVS - Hackney Giving Living with Covid
£3,665 30/06/2022
Ongoing participation in the Community Champion network and dissemination of health information to unpaid carers in the community.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to City & Hackney Carers Centre
£140,900 26/03/2021
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£140,900 over three years (£46,290; £46,840; £47,770) for the salary and on-costs of a 2 dpw Bilingual Adviser/Project Manager and a 3 dpw Bilingual Advice Officer and associated project costs of ....more
Hackney Council - Grant to City & Hackney Carers Centre
£20,000 24/03/2021
12
Wave 5 (Core): The funding is for core running costs so that we may continue to offer information and advice, emotional support, counselling and coaching, wellbeing sessions and group activities to ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£56,437 09/10/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
The London Community Foundation - Grant to City & Hackney Carers Centre
£23,354 29/09/2020
This funding is to provide support services to unpaid carers in Hackney and the City of London in the form of mental health support and information and advice.
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£23,354 29/09/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
London Catalyst - City & Hackney Carers Centre - 5
£3,000 08/09/2020
Parent Carer Support Service
Mercer's Charitable Foundation - Grant to City and Hackney Carers
£42,400 29/01/2020
24
A Parent Carer Project to support families of children with disabilities and additional needs.
National Lottery Community Fund - Reaching Out
£119,583 03/12/2013
48
This new project will seek to support LGBT carers living in the City of London and the London Borough of Hackney who are often excluded from accessing mainstream services due to a range of social ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to City & Hackney Carers Centre
£30,000 28/08/2013
The charity offers support to carers. Through volunteering they increase support to carers and offer an opportunity for carers and former carers to gain new skills and reduce their isolation.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 40-79
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 30/04/1996, number: 1054962
  • Registered at Companies House on 11/04/1995, number: 03044523
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR23: 2 days late, AR20: 1 days late, AR18: 1 days late, AR13: 35 days late, AR06: 1 days late,
Main office

City & Hackney Carers Centre
c/o Knox Cropper (5th Floor)
65-68 Leadenhall Street
London
EC3A 2AD

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM DISABILITIES ARISING FROM AGE, PHYSICAL OR MENTAL DISABILITY IN PARTICULAR THE PROVISION OF PRACTICAL ASSISTANCE, SUPPORT, TRAINING, ADVOCACY, COUNSELLING AND INFORMATION TO THOSE PERSONS CARING FOR PERSONS WITH SUCH DISABILITIES IN THE CITY OF LONDON AND THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

HACKNEY

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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